Welcome to the Monkey House (short story)
- Welcome to the Monkey House (short story)
Infobox short story |
name = Welcome to the Monkey House
title_orig =
translator =
author = Kurt Vonnegut
country = flag|USA
language = English
series =
genre = Dystopia
published_in = "Welcome to the Monkey House"
publication_type = Anthology
publisher = Delacorte Press (AKA Dell Publishing)
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pub_date = 1968
preceded_by =
followed_by = "Welcome to the Monkey House" is a Kurt Vonnegut short story that is part of the collection "Welcome to the Monkey House". It is alluded to in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater as one of Kilgore Trout's stories.
Publication history
*First published in January, 1968 in Playboy magazine.
*Published in August, 1968 in the collection "Welcome to the Monkey House" by Delacorte Press.
*Re-released on September 8, 1998 in the re-publication of "Welcome to the Monkey House" by Dial Press.
References in Pop-Culture
*In "The Simpsons" episode "Million Dollar Abie", "Grampa Simpson" is sent to a suicide doctor by the "Old Jewish Man". The doctors office is next to a Howard Johnsons. This is an allusion to the ethical suicide parlors being next to Howard Johnsons in this story.
*In the motion picture "Soylent Green", citizens of a vastly overcrowded New York City (including the character played by Edward G. Robinson) end their lives in ethically run suicide parlors.
Adaptations
*Showtime presented "Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House," with an adaptation of this story in 1991.
External links
* [http://www.vonnegutweb.com/collections/wttmh.html The short story at VonnegutWeb.com]
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